Businesses must step up pressure on political leaders in 2019 to take bold climate action if the world is to avert disastrous global warming, according to Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.

Writing exclusively for BusinessGreen, Bainimarama – who was president of the COP23 climate talks in 2017 and remains a key figure in global climate diplomacy – issued a clarion call for businesses to make 2019 a year of ambitious action on climate change, as national governments “cannot tackle the immensity of the crisis on their own”.